Radicalization Pipeline
Theo Triantafyllidis
NOVO MILANO
Eduardo Secci
Milan, from June 3 to October 2, 2021
Exhibition walkthrough video with the artist: www.novo.ooo/exhibitions/9-theo-triantafyllidis
Opening: Thursday, June 3, 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Exhibition view, Radicalization Pipeline, Theo Triantafyllidis, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
In Milan, from June 3 to October 2, 2021, NOVO is pleased to present “Radicalization Pipeline”, a solo show of ceramics and software works by Theo Triantafyllidis. The exhibition opens the new location of Eduardo Secci’s project space in Milan.
For this new body of work, Theo Triantafyllidis draws inspiration from video games and recent events of civil disorder in America. Looking at phenomena such as the rise of QAnon, the artist suggests connections between gamification, fantasy, and political radicalization.
The gallery space brings together a series of ceramic weapons. These dark glazed stoneware works are adorned with decorative details like tennis overgrip tapes, hair extensions, and laser-cut acrylics. With titles such as Chadslayer, Snowflake and, Stormbringer, they are reminiscent of the exaggerated forms often seen in video games and extremist ideologies which the internet culture has accelerated.
The ceramic surfaces reflect the light from a large display playing Radicalization Pipeline, a Live Simulation piece that runs on a gaming PC. Two seemingly endless hordes clash into a violent free-for-all, swinging large melee weapons and shouting with distorted voices. A wide range of characters - from citizen militias to fantastical creatures - enter the screen only to kill each other, wave after wave, sinking their virtual bodies slowly into a muddy landscape. The mood occasionally lightens up by the medieval covers of familiar pop songs that complete the soundscape conceived by the composer and sound designer Diego Navarro.
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist is available online at www.novo.ooo/exhibitions/9-theo-triantafyllidis.
Online preview of the Live Simulation titled Radicalization Pipeline: www.eduardosecci.com/artists/theo-triantafyllidis; www.vimeo.com/theotrian.
Theo Triantafyllidis, frame, Radicalization Pipeline, 2021, Live Simulation, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, born in Athens in 1988, lives and works in Los Angeles.
The artist builds virtual spaces and interfaces for the human body to inhabit them. He creates complex worlds and systems where the virtual and the physical merge in uncanny, absurd, and poetic ways. They are performances, mixed reality experiences, games, and interactive installations. He received a Master of Fine Arts at UCLA Department of Design Media Arts in 2016. Selected solo shows include ‘Pastoral’ at Eduardo Secci, Florence (2019); ‘Role Play’ at Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2018); and ‘Pretzel Twist’ at The Breeder, Athens (2017). Among the group exhibitions, ‘World on a Wire’, Hyundai Motor Studio & Rhizome of New Museum, Seoul (2021); Sundance New Frontier Exhibition, Park City, Utah (2020); Athens Biennale: ANTI-, Athens (2018); and Hyper Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017).
Theo Triantafyllidis’s work is currently on display at MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale: School of Waters, San Marino (2021). Among his upcoming exhibitions in 2021, ‘Radical Gaming: Immersion Simulation Subversion’ at House of Electronic Arts Basel and the Augmented Reality Biennale at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.
Exhibition view, Radicalization Pipeline, Theo Triantafyllidis, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
NOVO is the project space of Eduardo Secci focused on artistic experimentation and contemporary media, apart from the main gallery. It was born out in 2021 of the necessity for a dialogue between art and the languages of new contemporary. NOVO functions as an incubator of ideas encouraging the work of young artists and their future developments.
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and experimental works by young artists at the project space NOVO.
Theo Triantafyllidis, detail, Radicalization Pipeline, Live Simulation, 2021, Father Stomper, 2021, glazed stoneware, overgrip tape, untreated wood, 78 x 26 x 26 cm (30.7 x 10.2 x 10.2 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, detail, Stormbringer, 2021, glazed stoneware, overgrip tape, hair extensions, dice, 157 x 54 cm (61.8 x 21.2 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, Steal Stoppa, 2021, glazed stoneware, 80 x 80 x 45 cm (31.4 x 31.4 x 17.7 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, Kristal Klaw, 2021, glazed stoneware, 12 x 11 x 5 cm (4.7 x 4.3 x 1.9 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, detail, Wrong Side of Freedom, 2021, glazed stoneware, handlebar tape, laser cut acrylic, stainless steel, 164 x 42 cm (64.5 x 16.5 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, Anprim Talon, Alpha Skiver, Witchblade, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
NOVO Milano
Radicalization Pipeline - Theo Triantafyllidis
From June 3 to October 2, 2021 (extended)
Online video featuring the exhibition walkthrough with the artist: www.novo.ooo/exhibitions/9-theo-triantafyllidis
limone limone - Radu Oreian
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From October 8 to November 20, 2021
Eduardo Secci Milano
Kevin Francis Gray
Curated by Sergio Risaliti
From June 3 to October 2, 2021 (extended)
Online video featuring the exhibition walkthrough with the artist: www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions/51
Acustica - Alfredo Pirri
Curated by Laura Cherubini
From October 8 to November 20, 2021
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
NOVO Firenze
Sfiorare Fantasmi - Bea Bonafini
Curated by Edoardo Monti
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Le contraddizioni della fragilità
Diana Al-Hadid, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, José Carlos Martinat, Matthew Ritchie
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy
Opening: Thursday, September 9, 2021, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo
Instagram: @novo_projects / Facebook: @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com
Instagram / Facebook: @eduardoseccicontemporary
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
Radicalization Pipeline
Theo Triantafyllidis
NOVO MILANO
Eduardo Secci
Milan, from June 3 to October 2, 2021
Exhibition walkthrough video with the artist: www.novo.ooo/exhibitions/9-theo-triantafyllidis
Opening: Thursday, June 3, 11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Exhibition view, Radicalization Pipeline, Theo Triantafyllidis, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
In Milan, from June 3 to October 2, 2021, NOVO is pleased to present “Radicalization Pipeline”, a solo show of ceramics and software works by Theo Triantafyllidis. The exhibition opens the new location of Eduardo Secci’s project space in Milan.
For this new body of work, Theo Triantafyllidis draws inspiration from video games and recent events of civil disorder in America. Looking at phenomena such as the rise of QAnon, the artist suggests connections between gamification, fantasy, and political radicalization.
The gallery space brings together a series of ceramic weapons. These dark glazed stoneware works are adorned with decorative details like tennis overgrip tapes, hair extensions, and laser-cut acrylics. With titles such as Chadslayer, Snowflake and, Stormbringer, they are reminiscent of the exaggerated forms often seen in video games and extremist ideologies which the internet culture has accelerated.
The ceramic surfaces reflect the light from a large display playing Radicalization Pipeline, a Live Simulation piece that runs on a gaming PC. Two seemingly endless hordes clash into a violent free-for-all, swinging large melee weapons and shouting with distorted voices. A wide range of characters - from citizen militias to fantastical creatures - enter the screen only to kill each other, wave after wave, sinking their virtual bodies slowly into a muddy landscape. The mood occasionally lightens up by the medieval covers of familiar pop songs that complete the soundscape conceived by the composer and sound designer Diego Navarro.
The exhibition walkthrough video with the artist is available online at www.novo.ooo/exhibitions/9-theo-triantafyllidis.
Online preview of the Live Simulation titled Radicalization Pipeline: www.eduardosecci.com/artists/theo-triantafyllidis; www.vimeo.com/theotrian.
Theo Triantafyllidis, frame, Radicalization Pipeline, 2021, Live Simulation, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, born in Athens in 1988, lives and works in Los Angeles.
The artist builds virtual spaces and interfaces for the human body to inhabit them. He creates complex worlds and systems where the virtual and the physical merge in uncanny, absurd, and poetic ways. They are performances, mixed reality experiences, games, and interactive installations. He received a Master of Fine Arts at UCLA Department of Design Media Arts in 2016. Selected solo shows include ‘Pastoral’ at Eduardo Secci, Florence (2019); ‘Role Play’ at Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York (2018); and ‘Pretzel Twist’ at The Breeder, Athens (2017). Among the group exhibitions, ‘World on a Wire’, Hyundai Motor Studio & Rhizome of New Museum, Seoul (2021); Sundance New Frontier Exhibition, Park City, Utah (2020); Athens Biennale: ANTI-, Athens (2018); and Hyper Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017).
Theo Triantafyllidis’s work is currently on display at MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale: School of Waters, San Marino (2021). Among his upcoming exhibitions in 2021, ‘Radical Gaming: Immersion Simulation Subversion’ at House of Electronic Arts Basel and the Augmented Reality Biennale at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.
Exhibition view, Radicalization Pipeline, Theo Triantafyllidis, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
NOVO is the project space of Eduardo Secci focused on artistic experimentation and contemporary media, apart from the main gallery. It was born out in 2021 of the necessity for a dialogue between art and the languages of new contemporary. NOVO functions as an incubator of ideas encouraging the work of young artists and their future developments.
Eduardo Secci is an Italian gallery founded in 2013 in Florence with a second location in Milan from June 2021. Both spaces present a double program featuring the exhibitions of the main gallery and experimental works by young artists at the project space NOVO.
Theo Triantafyllidis, detail, Radicalization Pipeline, Live Simulation, Father Stomper, 2021, glazed stoneware, overgrip tape, untreated wood, 78 x 26 x 26 cm (30.7 x 10.2 x 10.2 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, detail, Stormbringer, 2021, glazed stoneware, overgrip tape, hair extensions, dice, 157 x 54 cm (61.8 x 21.2 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, Steal Stoppa, 2021, glazed stoneware, 80 x 80 x 45 cm (31.4 x 31.4 x 17.7 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, Kristal Klaw, 2021, glazed stoneware, 12 x 11 x 5 cm (4.7 x 4.3 x 1.9 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, detail, Wrong Side of Freedom, 2021, glazed stoneware, handlebar tape, laser cut acrylic, stainless steel, 164 x 42 cm (64.5 x 16.5 in), Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
Theo Triantafyllidis, Anprim Talon, Alpha Skiver, Witchblade, 2021, Photo The Knack Studio, Courtesy the artist and NOVO - Eduardo Secci Milano
NOVO Milano
Radicalization Pipeline - Theo Triantafyllidis
From June 3 to October 2, 2021 (extended)
Online video featuring the exhibition walkthrough with the artist: www.novo.ooo/exhibitions/9-theo-triantafyllidis
limone limone - Radu Oreian
Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
From October 8 to November 20, 2021
Eduardo Secci Milano
Kevin Francis Gray
Curated by Sergio Risaliti
From June 3 to October 2, 2021 (extended)
Online video featuring the exhibition walkthrough with the artist: www.eduardosecci.com/exhibitions/51
Acustica - Alfredo Pirri
Curated by Laura Cherubini
From October 8 to November 20, 2021
Via Zenale 3, Milan, Italy
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 02 38248728 / milano@eduardosecci.com
NOVO Firenze
Sfiorare Fantasmi - Bea Bonafini
Curated by Edoardo Monti
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Eduardo Secci Firenze
Le contraddizioni della fragilità
Diana Al-Hadid, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Andrea Galvani, José Carlos Martinat, Matthew Ritchie
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
From September 9 to November 6, 2021
Piazza Goldoni 2, Florence, Italy
Opening: Thursday, September 9, 2021, 4:00 - 8:00 pm
Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm / 2:30 - 7:00 pm
+39 055 661356 / firenze@eduardosecci.com
www.novo.ooo / hello@novo.ooo
Instagram: @novo_projects / Facebook: @NOVOprojects
www.eduardosecci.com / gallery@eduardosecci.com
Instagram / Facebook: @eduardoseccicontemporary
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
